China. Migration is found to increase farm incomes but decrease self-employed incomes. …

Water shortages in important grain-producing regions of China may significantly affect China's agricultural production … conservation policies can be put into place rapidly. While China's water use is unsustainable in some areas, there is substantial … effective water conservation. This report provides an overview of these changes and some analysis of their effectiveness. Wheat …

With the rapid growth in China's dairy industry, a number of recent papers have addressed either the supply or the … demand trends for dairy products in China. None, however, presents a systematic explanation for the recent growth in both the … supply and demand for dairy products. The goal of this paper is to sketch a more comprehensive picture of China's dairy …

estimates of consumption-based poverty and inequality in rural Shaanxi, China. We also investigate whether using environmental …

With the rise of the private sector in rural China, power has been shifting from the hands of local government … 2500 villages in rural China. Our findings provide strong support for the economic losers hypothesis - local governments … entrepreneurial policies that encourage an impartial regulatory environment for different types of enterprises in rural China may have …

agricultural incentives in the transition countries in East Asia (China and Vietnam), Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic …

China, the largest conservation set-aside program in the developing world. Using a panel data set that we designed and … payments to farmers decrease off-farm labor participation. One reason for the difference in findings between China and US may … be because there are more impediments to participating in off-farm labor market in the poor areas of rural China (the …

fully account for this spatial autocorrelation. In this paper, we use data from Shaanxi, China with exact measures of …